Let’s go Let’s get you up and running Assemble & charge Note: Your device is always on when being charged. Set up & go The first time you turn on your phone, a setup wizard guides you through signing in to your existing Google™...
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Cool content & more Browse and download thousands of the coolest Apps on the planet from Android Market™. Your phone comes with a microSD memory card installed—you can load it up with photos, videos, and music from your computer using “USB drag & drop” on page 67.
Touchscreen & keys A few essentials Touch tips Here are some tips on how to navigate around your phone. Touch To choose an icon or option, touch it. Touch & hold To open special options, touch and hold an icon or other item.
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letter between A and Z. Flick To scroll through a list or move quickly, flick across the touchscreen (drag quickly and release). Tip: When you flick a long list, touch the screen to stop it from scrolling. Zoom Get a closer look at maps or web pages. To zoom in, double touch the screen.
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Key tips Menu, home, & back Power key • In power off mode, press this key to turn on your phone. • In power on mode and screen-off mode, press this key to turn on the screen. • In power on and screen-on mode, press this key to turn the screen off.
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Settings > Sound & display > Screen timeout. Tip: To make the screen lock when the phone goes into sleep mode, use “Screen lock” on page 71. To unlock the screen, press Power or open the phone, then drag to the right. Power key menu Press and hold Power to open the power key menu, where you can turn off the phone (Power off), or turn...
Home screen Quick access to the things you need most Quick start: Home screen The home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on the phone or touch Home from a menu. It will appear basically like this: Note: Your home screen might look a little different.
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The home screen extends beyond what you see on the screen to give you more room for adding shortcuts, widgets, and more. Flick the home screen left and right to see more panels or to add widgets or shortcuts. Widgets Add a widget, such as a clock, music player, or a calendar that shows upcoming appointments.
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Shortcuts To add shortcuts to the home screen, open the App menu (see below), then touch and hold the shortcut you wish to add. It will be added to the home screen. Alternatively, access Menu > Add > Shortcuts. Apps Your phone comes with a few Apps already installed, and you can download and install more.
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to see what Apps are already open, then touch the one you want. You can view up to the last six Apps that you ran. Search To search, touch Search on the front of the phone, or touch Search on the QWERTY keypad. For a text search, touch the text box &...
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Bluetooth™ active network (full signal) GPS active network (roaming) Wi-Fi active downloading volume voicemail message vibrate 3G (fastest data) silent flight mode mute call battery (charging) battery (full charge) speakerphone active alarm set Tip: To see today’s date, touch and hold the status bar at the top of the screen.
Calls It’s good to talk Quick start: Calls Dialling options Find it: Phone Contacts Touch to open, then touch an entry to call. Recent Calls Touch to open, then touch an entry to call. Call Enter a phone num er & touch here to call it.
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In-call options During a call: • To use a Bluetooth™ device, touch Bluetooth. (The device must be turned on and previously paired — see “Connect new devices” on page 63.) • To mute a call, touch Mute. • To use the speakerphone, touch Speaker. Note: Using a mobile device or accessory while driving may cause distraction and may be illegal.
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Enter numbers during a call To enter numbers during a call, touch Dialpad. Recent calls Find it: Phone > Call log • To call a number, touch it. • To send a text message, create a contact, view a contact, or other options, touch and hold an entry. •...
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Conference calls To start a conference call, call the first number. After the call is answered, touch Add call and call the next number. When the next number answers, touch Merge call. Tip: Before merging, you can switch back and forth between the two calls by touching Your phone number Find it:...
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Note: Your mobile device can use AGPS satellite signals to help emergency services find you.
You don’t need a PC, surf the web with your phone Quick start: Browser Find it: Browser Connection Over the air or Wi-Fi. Links Touch to open. Drag or flick to scroll. Touch to display options. Note: If you can’t connect, contact your service provider.
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Connect Your phone uses the mobile phone network (over the air) to connect to the Web automatically. Note: Your service provider may charge to surf the Web or download data. To use a wireless network, touch Menu > Settings > Wireless & networks. Touch Wi-Fi to turn it on and touch Wi-Fi settings to search for nearby wireless networks.
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If you touch and hold the link, your phone shows options, like Open in new window or Bookmark link. Browser options Touch Menu to see browser options: Options Open Open a new browser window. Bookmarks See your bookmarks. Windows View the browser windows that are currently open.
Google Maps™ Where you are, where you’re going Note: This feature is not available in all areas. Check with your service provider. Quick start: Google Maps Where am I? Where do I want to go? Don’t worry - let Google Maps™ find out for you. Find it: Maps Map View...
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Google Maps™ opens by default in “Map mode”. To learn more about the different map modes, go to “Select map mode” on page 24. Set your location sources Set your phone to determine your location using GPS satellite signals (highly accurate, but uses battery power) or using the mobile network (less accurate, but conserves battery power).
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Touch the search box to view all the results, then touch the one you want. Get directions Touch Menu > Directions. Enter a starting point address or touch and select My current location, Contacts, or Points on map. Enter an end point address or touch and select Contacts or Points on map.
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Satellite view Shows map on top of aerial photo. Traffic view If available in your area, real-time traffic conditions are shown on the roads as color-coded lines.
Latitude Where are your friends & family? Note: This feature is not available in all areas. Check with your service provider. Join Latitude See where your friends and family are on Google Maps™. Plan to meet up, check that your parents got home safely, or just stay in touch.
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account. To remove friends: Touch Menu > Latitude to show your friend’s list, then touch a friend in your list. Touch Remove. Share location When you receive a request to share location details you can choose to: • Accept and share back - see your friend’s location, and your friend can see yours.
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Your account Log in or create account Find it: Menu > My account To create your YouTube account, touch “Don’t have a YouTube account? Click here to create one” link. If you already have a YouTube account, enter your user name and password, and touch Sign in. For a new account, enter a user name, complete the fields, then touch I accept.
Manage your life Stay on top of things. What can you manage? Email, contacts, and calendar on your phone give you access to the same personal information that you add, view, and edit on your computer with the use of Microsoft™...
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• To set new email notifications, such as having a special sound play when you receive a message, touch Menu > Settings > Email notifications, then select the ringtone and vibrate options. • To label an email thread, touch and hold a message, then touch Change labels.
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Calendar Find it: > Calendar You can manage your personal life on the Google calendar and your business affairs on the Corporate calendar. View a calendar in different ways: Touch Menu > Agenda, Day, or Week. When you highlight an event in the day and week views, more details appear.
Contacts Contacts like you’ve never had before Quick start: Contacts Find it: Contacts Contacts List Touch to view contact information. Touch & hold to edit, delete, & more. Menu Options Touch Menu edit sync groups or to add/import new contacts. Tip: To search the list, just open your phone and type a name, or simply touch Search...
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Sync with Facebook friends When you first log onto Facebook from your phone, you will be prompted to sync your phone’s contacts with your Facebook friends’ profiles, including profile pictures. You can sync with only people in your phone’s contacts, with your entire Facebook list, or you can choose not to sync.
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Touch + to add another entry. Touch - to remove this entry. To see more details, flick up. When you’re finished, touch Done Groups Find it: Contacts > Menu > Display options You can put your Contacts into groups that you create (like “friends”, “family”, or “work”).
Messaging Sometimes it’s best 2 text, or IM, or email . . . Quick start: Messaging Find it: Messaging Message List Touch to open a message. Touch & hold to move, delete, & more. Tip: To see more messages, flick or drag up. Read &...
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• To open options, touch and hold a message. Create messages Find it: Messaging > New message Enter the recipient and message. In text messages and emails, touch Menu for options, like Insert smiley or Attach. Send & receive attachments To send a file in a message, open a new message and touch Menu >...
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Find it: > Talk Touch Menu to see a list of your Google Talk friends, send invitations to add new friends, and much more. Instant messages To send and receive instant messages, you can use an instant messaging App (such as Google Talk™) or...
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your browser. • To download and use an instant messaging App, touch Market > Apps > Communication, then choose an App for your provider. Once you download the App, you’ll see it on the App menu (see “Apps” on page 14). •...
Text entry Think keyboard, now think smaller To change text entry settings, change languages, and see the dictionary of terms you’ve used, from the home screen, touch Menu > Settings > Language & keyboard. Touchscreen keypad When your phone is closed, you can open the display keypad by touching a text field.
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To change your settings for this keypad, from the home screen, touch Menu > Settings > Language & keyboard > keyboard. Text entry settings When you use the touchscreen keypad, your phone suggests words from your dictionary and chosen language. Your phone also automatically enters apostrophes in some words, like “dont.”...
Tips & tricks A few handy hints General tips • To return to home screen, touch Home • To see recently dialled numbers, touch Phone > Call log. • To sleep/wake your phone, press Power • To set screen timeout, touch Menu >...
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Battery tips Want to extend your battery life? Try these: • To turn off automatic applications sync, touch Menu > Settings > Accounts & sync. • To turn off Bluetooth power, touch Menu > Settings > Wireless & networks > Bluetooth. •...
Personalize Add your personal touch Widgets To create a new widget: Find an empty spot on your home screen where you want to add a widget, then touch and hold. Tip: You can flick left or right to open other panels on your home screen.
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Wallpaper To apply a new wallpaper: Find an empty spot on your home screen, then touch and hold. Touch Wallpapers. Touch Media gallery to select a photo as your wallpaper, or touch Wallpaper gallery to choose a wallpaper that comes with your phone. Sounds •...
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Quick launch shortcuts To set keyboard shortcuts to launch your favourite App, touch Menu > Settings > Applications > Quick launch > Assign Application. To use a quick launch shortcut, touch Search the assigned key, for example, Search launch the browser. You can also add shortcuts directly to the home screen for actions like Direct dial and Direct message.
Photos & videos See it, capture it, share it! Photos Take & share photos Take that family photo, and post it online for everyone to see. Note: To get the clearest photos, wipe the lens clean with a soft, dry cloth before you take a photo. Find it: Press Camera key Thumbnail of...
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A thumbnail of the photo you’ve just taken is shown on the right. Touch the thumbnail to view it. • the photo as a wallpaper or contact photo, touch Menu > Set as. • send the photo in a message or post it online, touch Menu >...
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Options Flash mode Choose from Automatic, On, and Off. White balance Compensate for colour differences in different lighting. Set to Auto or, for greater precision, set to Incandescent or Fluorescent for indoor lighting or to Daylight or Cloudy for outdoor lighting. Colour effect Apply different colour effects to images.
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Options Flash mode Choose from Auto (for best overall image quality), Infinity, and Macro (for close-ups). View your photos Find it: > Gallery > Camera Play a slideshow Touch > Gallery > Camera, touch a photo, then touch Slideshow to start a slideshow.
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Touch and hold a photo, then touch Share. Choose how you want to share — like Bluetooth, Email, or Messaging. Manage your photos Find it: > Gallery > Camera Touch and hold a photo, then: • To delete the photo, touch Delete. •...
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Thumbnail of Last Video Touch to view. Drag down to change t o camera. Touch to record a video. Tip: To send your video in a message, set the video quality to Low (for MMS messages) by touching Menu > Settings > Video Quality. To record a video, touch .
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Options Video quality Select Low if sending the video in an MMS message, High if storing the video on an SD card Video Set the length of your video. Select Duration 30 seconds if sending the video in an MMS/video message. Select 10 minutes or 30 minutes if storing the video on an SD card.
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Play your videos Find it: > > > select_video Gallery Camera Progress Bar Video Controls Note: To see the controls while the video is playing, touch the display.
Music When music is what you need... Quick start: Music Touch, touch, play — instant music. Just open your music library, then select what you want to play. Find it: > Music Categories Music Controls Touch a category, then touch a song or playlist. Tip: When a song is playing, you can add it to a playlist by touching Menu...
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Set up music What music transfer tools do I need? To put music on your computer and then load it on your phone, you need: • A Microsoft™ Windows™ PC or Apple™ Macintosh™ • A USB data cable. You need a memory card Your music is stored on your memory card.
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What headphones can I use? Your phone has a 3.5mm headset jack for wired stereo listening. You can go wireless with Bluetooth™ stereo headphones or speakers (see “Bluetooth™ wireless” on page 62). Get music Transfer music using USB Transfer music files from a computer to your memory card.
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connection. You are not able to use the files on your memory card while it is connected. Touch Mount (if asked) to connect your memory card. On your computer, locate and click on the “Removable Disk” icon to access the phone’s memory card.
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Find it: > Music Categories Touch to list songs or playlists. Your music is stored by artists, albums, songs, and playlists. Touch a category, then touch the song or playlist you want to play. Touch Menu > Party shuffle to randomly play all your songs.
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Music player Just touch a song or playlist to get going. Open Playlist Shuffle On/Off Repeat Off/All /Current Total Song Time Progress Bar Music player controls • Play/pause — Touch • Previous/next — Touch • Fast forward/rewind — Touch and hold •...
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• Shuffle — Touch • Repeat — Touch • Volume — Press the side volume keys. • View library — Touch Menu > Library. • Turn shuffle on/off — Touch Menu > Party shuffle. • Add to playlist — Touch Menu >...
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To add a song to the playlist you’re playing, touch Menu > Add to playlist in the music player. To edit, delete and rename playlists, touch and hold the playlist, in the music library.
Bluetooth™ wireless Lose the wires and go wireless Quick start: Bluetooth wireless Find it: Menu > Settings > Wireless & networks > Bluetooth settings Touch to turn on & scan. Touch to re-scan. Touch to connect. Turn Bluetooth power on or off Find it: Touch Menu >...
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Connect new devices Note: This feature requires an optional accessory. To connect with a new device, you need to pair with it. You only need to do this once for each device — to connect again, see “Reconnect devices” on page Make sure the device you are pairing with is in discoverable mode.
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Reconnect devices To automatically reconnect your phone with a paired device, simply turn on the device. To manually reconnect your phone with a paired device, touch the device name in the Bluetooth devices list. Disconnect devices To automatically disconnect your phone from a paired device, simply turn off the device.
Wi-Fi Home, office, or hotspot Quick start: Wi-Fi Find it: Menu > Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings Use a wireless network for fast Internet access and to download data. Touch to turn on & scan. Touch to connect. Turn Wi-Fi on or off Find it: Menu...
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Wi-Fi search & connect To find networks in your range: Touch Menu > Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings. Touch Wi-Fi to turn on and scan. If Wi-Fi is already on, touch Menu > Scan. Your phone lists the networks it finds within range.
USB & memory card Connect your phone and computer, then drag & drop USB drag & drop You can transfer your pictures, videos, music, ringtones, and more, from your computer to your phone’s memory card. With a memory card inserted, and your phone showing the home screen, connect a micro USB data cable from your phone’s micro USB port to a USB port on your computer.
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ringtones, and more, to the phone folder on the memory card. To help manage your files, you can create more folders inside your phone folder. When you’re done, select the “Safely Remove Hardware” feature on your computer. On your phone, drag down the notification panel (see “Phone status &...
Tools Stay on top of things Alarm clock Find it: > Alarm Clock To turn on an alarm, touch the check box. When an alarm sounds, touch Dismiss to turn it off or Snooze to delay. To add an alarm, touch Menu >...
Management Stay in control Wireless manager Find it: Menu > Settings > Wireless & networks Manage all your wireless connections: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth™, airplane mode, & mobile networks. Airplane mode Use airplane mode to turn all your wireless connections off — useful when flying. Update my phone To keep your phone current, software updates may be available.
Security Help keep your phone safe Quick start: Security Find it: Menu > Settings > Location & security Screen lock Note: You can make emergency calls on a locked phone. A locked phone still rings, but you need to unlock it to answer.
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phone, then, drag to the right. Set unlock pattern To set an unlock pattern, that you need to draw to unlock your screen, touch Menu > Settings > Location & security > Set unlock pattern, then follow the instructions to draw your pattern. To turn the lock off, touch Menu >...
Troubleshooting We’re here to help Crash recovery In the unlikely event that your phone stops responding to touches and key presses, try a quick reset. Remove the back cover and battery, then replace and switch your phone on as usual. Reset To reset your phone to factory settings and erase all the data on your phone, touch Menu...
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FCC statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules: Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. This device may not cause harmful interference and 2. This device must accept any interference that is received, including any interfer ence that may cause undesired operation.
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